As the farthest colony from the mainland.

Although every year it will bring a lot of benefits.

However, for a long time, the number of Spanish troops stationed in the Manila colony was only a few hundred or thousand.

Last year, the Dutch suffered a crushing defeat off the coast of Fujian, and the destruction of 18 Galen ships, causing the shares of the Dutch East India Company to plummet on the Amsterdam stock exchange. The Spaniards, who got this information, broke out in a cold sweat and immediately increased the number of troops sent to the east.

Among them, the army increased by 2,000 troops.

The navy sent eight additional warships and nearly 2,000 sailors.

Plus the forces that already existed.

In the city of Manila, the total number of troops available to the Spaniards reached 5,000, and these well-trained and well-equipped regular troops were easily used to deal with the more than 10,000 Han Chinese in the city.

Therefore, the rich Han area in the west of the city was the first to be breached, and more than 2,000 Spanish soldiers rushed in, killing people when they saw them, robbing them when they saw property, and X when they saw beautiful women.

The Han merchants were very surprised and begged for mercy:

"Master Jun, I am a good citizen, a good citizen who cooperates with you."

"I know the Governor, and I'm an old friend of the Governor!"

"Mistaken, must be mistaken, your target should not be us, we have always been trustworthy citizens!" The merchant said in fluent Latin.

"Bastard, I'll fight with you!" Seeing his wife and children lying in a pool of blood, the Han businessman's eyes finally burned with anger, and he picked up a kitchen knife and was about to resist.

But with a bang, a lead bullet hit him in the chest, and he fell to the ground, and then he was stabbed by a bayonet more than a dozen times in succession.

There was remorse in his eyes: wrong, he was wrong, he regretted not listening to the young man's reminder, the Spaniards were beasts, and he still had a trace of illusion in his heart.

……

In the south of the city, this Han parish, was also plunged into a sea of slaughter and fire.

Even the previous informant Pastor Chen fell in a pool of blood at this moment, his eyes were full of incredulity.

Didn't you say that if you convert to God, all sins will be forgiven? My soul already belongs to God, and it is for you to be the same kind of people, the most trustworthy companion, why shoot me?

They must be mistaken, they are sinning for evil, and God will never forgive them!

When I go to heaven, I must sue them before God, and let God punish his murderers.

It's just that how do I feel darker and colder? What about a warm and bright paradise? How did I not feel the presence of heaven? Or is it because my skin color, my hair color, and my eyes are not characteristic of Westerners, so I am not destined to go to heaven? Only under ......

"No, no!"

Pastor Chen roared twice unwillingly, and then fell into eternal darkness.

……

In the Han residential area in the north of the city, the battle was very fierce.

Xu Yucheng found that although the more than 5,000 Han people who lived in the north of the city and made a living by selling coolies, planting and fishing, most of them were strong and powerful, hard-working, and very good in organization, and they were able to unite as one, and they were also ready for battle, and even got a few old-fashioned firecrackers.

But compared to the Spanish regular army, it is still too far behind.

A standard Spanish phalanx, numbering about 250 people, of which two-thirds were musketeers and one-third were spearmen, was a near-perfect military formation in this era, capable of restraining almost all arms, including cavalry, and only artillery could inflict certain losses on them.

It's just that for a group of Han people who don't have any heavy firepower, they are naturally invincible.

"Ready—"

The Spanish commander ordered: "Shoot!" ”

Bang bang!

A large number of Spanish musketeers half-crouched on the ground and opened fire at the same time.

"Bow your head, lie down! Don't rush over again! ”

Xu Yucheng reminded loudly, but few young people took his words seriously, still holding tables and stools, quilts, iron pots and other items, and attacked the Spaniards, but after the gunshot, most of them were beaten into a sieve by muskets and fell in a pool of blood.

Although heroic, it cannot inflict any damage on the enemy.

"Keep going!"

Under the orders of the Spaniard commander, the Spanish phalanx, with neat steps, continued to approach the persecution.

Fifty meters.

Forty meters.

Thirty meters.

Getting closer.

The despair on the faces of the young men on their side became more and more obvious, because if this trend continued, they would soon be slaughtered.

But Xu Yucheng took out a high-explosive grenade from his coat pocket, calculated the distance, and after being sure enough, he pulled the fuse and threw it hard, throwing it very accurately into the middle of this Spanish phalanx.

Another weakness of this large phalanx is that the personnel are arranged too densely, and there are almost no gaps.

Rumble!

After the explosion of a high-explosive grenade.

With a kill radius of three meters and a killing area of nearly 30 square meters, at least 50 Spaniards were included, and the explosion caused them to turn on their backs, stumps and broken arms flying, and the dead and wounded fell to the ground, letting out an earth-shattering howl.

Xu Yucheng's grenade killed and injured at least 30 people, causing him to fall into a panic, while his own side cheered and boosted morale:

"Well played, well played!"

"Dozens of them were finally killed."

"Who did it, which hero's handwriting?" A muscular brawny man asked.

"It's me!"

Xu Yucheng immediately said aloud: "Brothers, I am a liaison sent by Xujiazhuang, I know how to deal with these Xiyi, and then you all listen to my command, as long as you do what I say, you will definitely be able to drag down the time, and even defeat these Xiyi." ”

"Okay, we'll all listen to you, do whatever you say!" The strong man was the first to take a stand.

"Just do as he says."

"It's really not okay to blindly fight and rush."

"This hero has an artifact, and he will definitely lead us to a way to survive."

Nearly a thousand young men in the position were immediately willing to obey Xu Yucheng's arrangement, because everyone was very pragmatic, they couldn't help the Spaniards at the cost of hundreds of casualties, Xu Yucheng took twenty or thirty as soon as he made a move, who would listen to him if he didn't listen to him?

Taking advantage of the precious gap between the Spaniards treating the wounded and regrouping the team, Xu Yucheng divided the nearly 1,000 young men on hand into the decoy group (composed of thin, low, and flexible people, responsible for attracting firepower), the throwing group (specifically responsible for throwing stones to interfere), and the Mengda Mengchong group (all elite men, equipped with the best weapons, and playing a decisive role in the decisive battle at the critical moment), and taught them how to dodge bullets, how to cooperate in groups of three, and how to kill the enemy. They also let out all kinds of strange screams and roars, not only to inspire themselves, but also to frighten their enemies.

Onigiri reads a book

Under this series of arrangements.

The effect is very significant, coupled with the Spaniards who are afraid of being bombed again, not only the formation has become much more sparse, but even the distance has been stretched to more than eighty meters, and they dare not get too close, but at this distance, the hit rate of the musket has dropped greatly, and the Han people on the opposite side actually played an obscene hide-and-seek tactic, or simply lie on the ground, each round of shooting, take away at most two or three people, according to this efficiency, when can the slaughter task be completed.

"Reinforcements, I need a lot of reinforcements!"

Commander Petro García told one of his subordinates to call for more reinforcements, at least a thousand.

But where are the reinforcements at this time? They are all robbing the Han residential areas in the west and south of the city, and they are all making a fortune, how can they come to help? At least not in the short term.

And so an hour passed.

Two hours passed.

Three hours passed.

During this period, Petro ordered to launch a number of charges, and even found Xu Yucheng, a key figure who played a role in the brain, and immediately sent dozens of elites to prepare to decapitate him, but in exchange for two high-explosive grenades, he was killed and injured twenty or thirty people, not to mention, Xu Yucheng led the Mengda Mengchong group, but also launched a counter-charge, with several times the number of advantages, after paying more than 30 people dead and wounded, the more than 30 Spanish elites, all killed, and a batch of weapons and ammunition were also captured.

In this way, the phalanx led by Petro had a total loss of more than 100 people, close to half, and completely lost the ability to attack.

Xu Yucheng still had the strength to spare, took the captured muskets, formed a musket team of 30 people, and began to go to various places to save the scene, stabilizing the various defense lines in the Han residential area in the north of the city, plus the few remaining high-explosive grenades, he was able to fight back and forth with the Spanish army, bringing them a lot of losses.

It lasted until late in the evening, when the Spaniards temporarily ceased the siege.

Xu Yucheng made people take stock, and the number of Han people available in his hands was as many as 3,200.

But the good fortune basically ended here.

Pedal Pedal Pedal ~

Xu Yucheng and the others heard the footsteps of groups of Spanish soldiers coming to help.

Whoa~

The sound of pushing the artillery was heard.

As long as they wait until dawn to attack, the end of their people will come, and there is no chance of survival.

Fortunately, on December 17th, it was three o'clock in the morning, two hours before dawn.

In the port of Manila, there was a violent explosion, wave after wave, with an average of one round every ten seconds, and soon the entire port became a fire in the sky, reflecting as if it were daytime.

Immediately after that, the 2nd Marine Brigade landed ashore, and the sound of breech-loading gun fire became more and more intense, and the screams became more and more frequent.

"Reinforcements are coming, our reinforcements are coming!"

Xu Yucheng jumped up, cried with joy, and said, "We won, we can survive!" ”

"Oh oh oh ~ "

"Won, this time we won!"

His subordinates, Tang Xulong, Meng Xianglin (Hu Wen had been killed in battle), and the surviving more than 3,000 Han people also gave earth-shattering cheers.

……

Four o'clock in the morning, inside the Governor's Palace in Manila.

The governor Ramos Cueva, who had a handcuff in his hand, could not help but feel cold and hopeless when he heard the shouts of killing that were getting closer and closer, and soon arrived at his residence, entered his chamber, and then took his life.

In this countdown moment, he had to take the handcuff and go to his daughter's room, but he said to this daughter, who had been carefully raised for eighteen years, with an angelic face, as white and beautiful as a porcelain doll: "Christine, those Ming people are coming, they will defile your chastity, torture your body, and then smash your life like breaking a piece of porcelain, you don't deserve such torture, come, let Dad know your life, you won't feel any pain." ”

Ramos Cueva aimed his handcuff at his daughter's pretty head.

"Nope! The Akito will not kill me, they said on the loudspeaker, they will only kill butchers like you, they will not harm women and children, as long as they do not resist, they will survive. ”

Christine stepped back repeatedly, dodging the muzzle of the gun, and even lifted her skirt, turned and ran.

"You-"

Governor Ramos's handcuff in his hand aimed and aimed, as long as he pulled the trigger, he was at least forty percent sure of the hit, but until his daughter's back ran out of the room, he couldn't press the trigger, hey, although Christine was naïve and rebellious, and even approached the inferior Han people, and repeatedly persuaded herself to improve her relationship with the Han people, stop killing, but after all, she is her favorite daughter.

I heard the roar of the Akito from downstairs again.

I had to put the handcuff at my head, press it hard, and bang, his sinful life ended prematurely without a righteous trial.